First, if you're going to install YaBB 2.5.2 on your server, do it before you add any additional mods. You may not need the StopForumSpam mod. You can use your old Settings.pl from cgi-bin/yabb2/Variables. So copy it and save it and then put it back in its proper folder when you're done.

The BoardMod program needs to know the location of YaBB.pl file (and the other files) you supposedly downloaded from your server and put into a directory on your computer (folders and all.) If it's 2.5, then the folder in c:\programs\boardmod\mods\ (or whereever it is) needs to be named 2.5. If you're working on YaBB 2.5.2 then that folder needs to be named 2.5.2.

Many 2.5 mods will work with 2.5.2 without any problems.

If you only have one solution to a problem you're not trying hard enough!

BoardMod takes the version number from names of the folders in BoardMod/Mods/. It's a dropdown selector, not an input box. If there's nothing in the dropdown then there's no folders in BoardMod/Mods/ for BoardMod to read.

Once BoardMod can find the folders and you select one, the names of the mod files in that folder will appear.

« Last Edit: Jan 11th, 2013 at 5:22am by Dandello »

If you only have one solution to a problem you're not trying hard enough!

Hang in there. I was completely lost when I tried installing Boardmod ... none of it made any sense to me. I encountered the exact same problems you did. But then thanks to a couple of people in particular over at Boardmod, I was given step by step instructions until I was finally able to install a couple of mods.

Hopefully in the future at some point, YaBB will include Boardmod as part of its core so we can access it via our Admin Center, and it will also include a self-installation mod of sorts so that YaBB's public at large can use YaBB successfully.

Until then, feel good that a lot of people have used Boardmod successfully, and if a normal guy like me can do it, you can too. Ironically, once you see how it really works, you'll have one of those moments of clarity, and you'll think to yourself, "But of course!"

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

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If you're installing it on 2.5.2 you'll need both as the first one has the additional graphics and Perl files the mod needs and the second one has the 2.5.2 specific install package. (Many thanks to Derek BTW, for keeping this mod up to date.)

The other anti-spam mods incorporated into 2.5.2 are also available as mods for 2.5AE.